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Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
At the University of Toronto, our definition of ITS is broad and inclusive. It involves applying information technology and other advanced methods and techniques to improve transportation system performance and to increase these systems’ contribution to our economic and social well-being.
Addressing transportation problems involves a complex interplay between technology; human perception; cognition and behavior; and social, economic, and political systems. So, transportation research is inherently multi- and interdisciplinary.
The ITS Centre and Testbed
The ITS Centre and Testbed provides an instrumented, multijurisdictional, multiagency transportation operations environment linked to university laboratories for real-world development, testing, and evaluation of ITS technologies and applications. It is also a meeting ground or melting pot for public, academic, and private practitioners and researchers to explore new approaches to transportation system management. It offers a site for private industry to demonstrate and evaluate its prototype technologies under live traffic conditions and an ongoing testing ground for Canadian ITS efforts
Written Description of the Testbed
ITS Testbed Presentation
Testbed Partners
2001 Launch of the Testbed
Virtual Toronto Network
The Toronto Network is a Microsimulation traffic model of the Metro Toronto Area. Its goal is to accuarately simulate traffic patterns allowing transportation analysts to study the impacts of a wide range of scenarios. On completion the Toronto Network will be used for future studies of user demand impacts on our traffic networks and lead to studies in maximizing the capacity of our roads via Intelligent Transportation Systems such as advanced traffic assignment and re-routing, ramp metering and highway tolling, etc. The ultimate goal of this will be to develop strategies that will help to reduce the congestion of our roads and highways.
Research / Researchers 
Baher Abdulhai
Selected Project Links
Atlantic is a partnership of ITS communities in Europe and North America. The ITS Centre is a central partner in this group.
Enterprise - The focus of the Enterprise project is to develop a system to assist in more effective deployments of automatic incident detection systems and to explore the current possibilities for probe-based systems within this context